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6 giorni fa · Prisoners picking oakum at Coldbath Fields Prison in London, c. 1864. But, by 1820, faith in the efficacy of legal reform had declined, as statutory changes had no discernible effect on the level of crime, and the prisons, where prisoners shared large rooms and booty including alcohol, had become riotous and prone to escapes.
2 giorni fa · Lawyers for the cleared prisoners have declined to comment on the aborted transfer, or to discuss the mood in Guantánamo’s minimum-security Camp 6 facility, where the men who have been approved ...
16 ore fa · In a bid to strengthen its military ranks, Ukraine has initiated the release of the first prisoners under a new scheme offering parole to convicts willing to fight. This move, announced by a regional court on Wednesday, May 22, comes as Kyiv faces a pressing need for troops on the front lines. According to government sources, over 3,000 ...
16 ore fa · As of October 1, 2023, there were 2,262 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
16 ore fa · Join us in this fight. A court in Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi Oblast ruled on May 22 to release two prisoners who have volunteered to join the army, marking the first instance in which prisoners were freed from detention on the condition they enter military service. Ukraine's parliament passed a bill on May 8 that permits those convicted of certain ...
3 giorni fa · On 21 May, we mark the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. Since the death of political prisoner and activist Vitold Ashurak in prison in May 2021, at least five more political prisoners have died in regime’s places of captivity: Mikalai Klimovich, Ales Pushkin, Vadzim Khrasko, Ihar Lednik, and Aliaksandr Kulinich. They were unjustly persecuted for their ...
2 giorni fa · Imprisonment for public protection sentences were abolished by the coalition government back in 2012, but the change was not retrospective - meaning 2,852 prisoners remain behind bars, including ...
